I used Abator for the time last week on a small project that I was trying to get out the door in hurry.
First impressions are great, it helped me the base code out in no time flat and allowed me to focus on the stuff that needed it. This is a great tool Jeff. I have a couple of questions / suggestions: 1. Is there any way of easily changing the code templates to modify the generated code? Not only the java code, but things like the sqlmap xml files. 2. Can I manually specify foreign key relationships? I couldn¹t find any information about this, but it would be great if I could specify any relationships and their type (eg 1:1, 1:n ) which would allow abator to generate some boilerplate code. 3. Related to the previous point I¹d like to be able to specify an alias for a table (eg Table Users as U) and then the associated ByExample model would use that alias in the generated code (eg where U.name = x¹). The big advantage will be extending the ByExample to easily cater to foreign key relationships I don¹t want to come across as the sort of person who¹s complaining about the lack of features in an OS product. I think it¹s great and I¹d love to help where I can. I didn¹t want to charge off making changes without getting a feel for what the roadmap for abator is and what others are already doing. Is there a contributors guide to the code? It would be nice to have an overview of what¹s happening where. Z.
